by Jay Garrett on December 30, 2009
YouTube could be increasing its web monopoly by also becoming an interactive gaming portal as well as somewhere to play 80’s music videos and clips of kittens.
The recent Google patent application for a “Web-based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos,” was filed earlier this year but has only been published this month.
The Google patent points to a system where the creation of video annotations can be used for gaming-like mechanics and video behavior change. I’m taking this as putting a game together that jumps from video to video based on your answers or responses or even will stop a vid at a point until the correct response has been made.
In their own words:
“Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior of an existing video, e.g. by supplementing it with text, allowing linking to other videos or web pages, or pausing playback of the video. Authentication of a user desiring to perform annotation of a video may be performed in various manners, such as by checking a uniform resource locator (URL) against an existing list, checking a user identifier against an access list, and the like. As a result of authentication, a user is accorded the appropriate annotation abilities, such as full annotation, no annotation, or annotation restricted to a particular temporal or spatial portion of the video.”
What do you think to YouTube based gaming?
by Jay Garrett on October 21, 2009
It sounds as though Google will definitely be parading out a new rival to Spotify, Napster and the like.
Word on the web is that Google is in talks to shore up content from major music labels ahead of launch.
Nothing has been confirmed, but one tipster has called the service Google Audio, and it will launch in the US soonish.
The other thing that isn’t clear is whether this thing will be a download or streaming service, or both.
Google actually already has a pretty decent music search engine that can be accessed by simply typing “music:” before a query but songs are not available for streaming or download from those searches.
Google is hooking up with LaLa and iLike but they’re keeping a tight lid on everything – one thing is clear though: it looks like a big win for LaLa and iLike which ever way this is sliced as both will get massive flow from this deal.
On top of that it seems that MySpace made a genius move with their acquisition of iLike.
Whatever this Google Audio is chances are it won’t be like Google’s Chinese music service engine, which hunts out free tracks so you can help yourself.
Peter Kafka over at AllThingsD seems to have his own sources who seem to know a lot more:
Sources describe the service, which will be called “One Box”, as a refined set of answers for music queries. The idea: Punch in, say, “Madonna“, and you’ll be presented with one or more songs, which may be partial clips or full-length versions, then guided to other sites where you can purchase the music.
All in all, this just sounds like a new search interface—not a new iTunes, Spotify-killer, or anything else worth getting overly excited about.
More on this as it arrives – word is to expect something happening on the 28th……..
YouTube could be increasing its web monopoly by also becoming an interactive gaming portal as well as somewhere to play 80’s music videos and clips of kittens.
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